Sean Penn skipped the Oscars and instead went to Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/m...

Taoiseach reading Trump’s posts and watching his clips from today in advance of the big White House visit tomorrow

Watching the Oscars and Conan just said “let’s hear it for Sinners”. Something we never heard at mass that’s for sure.

Seuss’ cat: it’s like Schrödinger’s, but the cat may or may not be in the hat

Xenomorph seen boarding Air Force One. Good.

😂😂

I’m thinking white chess bishop. Did he only move diagonally?

Beware the ideas of March

BRUTUS: come on grab your weapon we're going to kill Caesar CHUCK SCHUMER: *picks up strongly worded letter* coming

For the day that’s in it…… How many Irish mammies does it take to change a lightbulb? None. Don’t mind me, I’ll just sit here in the dark

She’s not, she’s just disappointed

hey senators here’s your chance to do something really funny today

I already have a data center powered by human brain cells. It’s called my brain and it is currently asking WTAF?

Weapons, arsenal and fallout all feel like unfortunate word choices here

Beware the tides of March

merde

A truly rare multiple sighting in the wild

Come on, em, not-France!! #sixnations #speirgoirm

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I was trying to think of some jokes about pasta but all I got were a fusilli puns

I hadn't even heard about this. Have we tried annexing him?

“I hear you’re an England fan now father”

Apparently homeopathy is okay in very very very very very very small doses.

Thank you for your attention to this antimatter

A colleague gave me these cute little guys as a gift Who are they you ask? Well they are clearly Swiss, and I’m guessing something religious, because of the holiness

This cannot be real but of course it is

Rereading this book in a new edition - my favourite nonfiction writer on my favorite subject. A masterclsss in how to make complex subjects not just accessible but bloody funny with it

You ok hun? Need to go lie down for a bit?

He is itching to use a bloody nuke, and no one around him would discourage him

Pretty accurate

WTAF? Seriously? Makes Melania look like a little indie movie in cost per minute

It must be the 1980s because my feed is full of Dire Straits

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

The origins of the rhetorical Irish greeting “ how’s it going?” (to which the correct if confusing response is “ how’s it going?”) remain unknown

Me: feeling remarkably like Spring today! Irish weather: ha ha fooled ya

Some cool trivia…Mount Everest contains marine rocks, proving that the highest point on Earth was once at the bottom of the ocean. 😎💙😎

Jeepers but there has been some change in petrol and diesel prices in Cork over the last few days

Just left Oslo yesterday lunchtime so this sent weird shivers.

So let me get this straight, if Iran picks a new leader the countries attacking Iran don’t like they will just kill them and keep doing that until they pick someone they approve of? WTAF?

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

Bag got lost traveling home today thanks to an expectedly tight connection in Amsterdam. They asked if there was anything dangerous in it and I said well there’s some cheese that might go off.

Yoda might have been a Jedi master but he was a crap rugby coach

While visiting a Norwegian university today for a PhD exam I was struck by decorative features in their ceremonial hall. Very Celtic/Book of Kells? Did we steal from the vikings or did they steal from us? #speirgorm

On a short work trip to foggy frigid Norway and I’m off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of

A colleague of mine told me one of the most outrageous stories I have ever heard about scientific publishing. The submitted a paper to a respected journal and a while later got an email from an academic saying they were reviewing it (they had all details)… (1/2) @academic-chatter.bsky.social

I for one am confused as to where the boots are

I really wish articles about the war would not use the word “fallout” quite so much

On World Wildlife Day, sharing a photo of a ferocious beast fixing us with his terrifying stare